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Bringing Climate Smart Agriculture to Scale: Experiences from the Water Productivity Project in East and Central Africa
(IntechOpen, 2018-03)
Since 2010, six research organizations in the region have implemented a regional project that sought to combat food insecurity, poverty and climate change by up-scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies across ...
Association between land use change and exposure to zoonotic pathogens – Evidence from selected case studies in Africa.
(Elsevier, 2018-09)
The demand for food and other ecosystem services have risen in the recent past in many parts of the world due to increasing human population. This has promoted agricultural intensification and increased extraction of natural ...
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Kenya
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)
Kenya is an agricultural nation, with over 12 million people residing in
areas with degraded lands. Unfortunately, the food crop productivity growth in the
country has failed to exceed the population growth. The growth ...
Issues for quality enhancement and harmonization of education in East Africa.
(Springer Link, 2016-03)
This chapter provides a description of the historical and political development of the current mass education system in East Africa. It goes on to provide a comparative analysis of the structure of the school education ...
Role of Latent Local Technologies and Innovations to Catapult Development in Kenya
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
The domination of “colonization shadow” may have reduced
the manifestation of young indigenous technologies and innovations
that with minimal value addition could help local communities overcome
many challenges. Rediscovery ...
Integrating Farmers and Scientific Methods for Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Options in Embu County
(Springer International Publishing, 2014-11)
Potential for promoting sorghum crop as a climate change adaptation strategy for rain-fed agriculture in Embu County, Kenya was evaluated using farmer perceptions and scientific methods. Three hundred and sixty six smallholder ...
Explanatory reasoning in Junior high Science textbooks
(SensePublishers, 2012)
Current reforms in science education emphasize the importance of using inquiry- based teaching strategies that engage students in formulating explanations from evidence (National Research Council [NRC], 2000). Specifically, ...
The Cell Bio-engineering: Biotechnology Practice Notes
(Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016)
This book is compiled from work and experiences of a number of years of
teaching Cell Biology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Thus, the content
included is attested practices written with a practical ...
Towards a Harmonized Curriculum in East Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Intended Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
(Springer, 2016)
This chapter presents the results and insights gained from a comparative analysis of the national secondary school mathematics syllabuses of Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Whilst considerable commonalities were ...